Jack Ma says he plans to step down from Alibaba on Monday to pursue philanthropy in education, will remain on company's board and continue to mentor management
HONG KONG — Alibaba's co-founder and executive chairman, Jack Ma, said he planned to step down from the Chinese e-commerce giant …
Twitter permanently suspends Infowars and Alex Jones' accounts, saying they violate “abusive behavior” rules, will suspend other accounts he registers or uses
The Washington Post Reuters : Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones, website Infowars James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Alex Jones and Infowars kicked off Twitter for good MacDailyNews : Twitter permanentl...
In a letter to US government, Apple publishes a detailed list of its products that it says will be affected by Trump's tariffs on China
A proposed $200 billion tariff on Chinese goods would affect the Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Beats headphones, AirPort routers, Apple Pencil …
Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store
A day after being banned from Twitter, Alex Jones and Infowars have been booted from yet another platform: Apple's popular App Store. As of Friday evening, searches on the App Store for Infowars retu...
Apple removes popular anti-adware app Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store; the app surreptitiously stole and sent users' browsing history to a domain in China
Apple has removed a top Mac app called Adware Doctor, designed to “prevent malware and malicious files from infecting your Mac …
Sources: Apple is in talks with the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal to join Texture, a magazine subscription app it bought in March
Last March, Apple bought Texture, a digital magazine service. Now it wants the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to join up.
How mainstream users searching YouTube for info about Germany's far-right protests get pointed toward extremist and conspiracy videos
CHEMNITZ, Germany — The day after far-right demonstrators took over the streets here, Sören Uhle, a city official who oversees municipal marketing and development …
Alibaba says NYT story on Jack Ma's retirement is wrong; Ma will continue as executive chairman for some time, providing a succession strategy on Monday
Jack Ma, who co-founded the world's largest e-commerce platform, will unveil a succession strategy next week, part of a management plan 10 years …
Huawei includes benchmark detection tool in smartphones so scores don't reflect real performance; in response it says its competitors mislead consumers too
Huawei busted over benchmark tests; Brightstar's new CEO and more benchmarks.ul.com : UL delists Huawei phones with suspect benchmark scores JC Torres / SlashGear : Huawei P20, Honor Play delisted by ...
Researchers find 24 popular iOS apps that sent sensitive user data like GPS, Bluetooth LE Beacon, and Wi-Fi network identifiers to data monetization firms
A group of security researchers say dozens of popular iPhone apps are quietly sharing the location data of “tens of millions of mobile devices” …
Andrei Tyurin, alleged Russian hacker of JP Morgan and others, has been extradited to the US and charged with stealing data of 100M+ customers from 2012-2015
- Georgia hands Tyurin to U.S., years after others were charged — Hacker is alleged to have worked for mastermind Gery Shalon
Google debuts a new web app called Touring Bird from its internal incubator Area 120, which surfaces and helps book fun activities in 20 top travel destinations
Trip planning: love it or hate it, it's a requisite part of the prep work that goes into every successful vacation.
After getting caught boosting its benchmark scores, Huawei says it will let users access “performance mode” to speed up smartphones at the cost of battery life
Huawei got caught cheating on benchmark tests, and now it's trying to make amends.
Inside the implosion of Social Capital as key partners and execs keep leaving and, sources believe, Chamath Palihapitiya is no longer putting the firm first
a Valley star's dereliction of duty, divorce, an affair with an Italian girlfriend, fleeing founding partners, unkept business promises—sound like a routine earnings call. http://twitter.com/... Downt...
Epic says that 15M users installed Fortnite for Android in the first 21 days after launch
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Sources: Saudi Arabia's Aramco is considering a $1B fund to invest in international tech companies and may open an office in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in US
Saudi Arabia is making efforts to diversify its oil-dependent economy — DUBAI—Saudi Arabia's national oil company is considering …
EU regulators greenlight Apple's December 2017 acquisition of Shazam
European regulators have given the green light to Apple's December 2017 acquisition of music and image recognition discovery firm Shazam. — Apple Music is the second largest music streaming service ...
British Airways says an attack on its site and app on Aug. 21-Sept. 5 exposed customers' personal and financial details, believes ~380K “card payments” breached
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo :
Rigetti says its Quantum Cloud Services will let users run a hybrid of quantum and normal algorithms in the cloud, vastly reducing latency and increasing speed
and a $1M prize Tweets: Frank Chen / @withfries2 : Quantum + classical computers. In the cloud. $1M prize. What else could you want? Go team @rigetti! http://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
From September 15, Tencent will require players in China to use real names when logging in to Honour of Kings to identify minors and limit their playtime
Matthew Gault / Motherboard :
Microsoft sends out press invites to an event on October 2 where the refresh of current Surface hardware is likely to be announced
but it probably still won't launch a smartphone Brandon Russell / TechnoBuffalo : Microsoft Wants “a Moment of Your Time” for Event on October 2 Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge : Google announces an even...
DARPA says it will invest up to $2B over the next five years toward new programs advancing artificial intelligence
Drew Harwell / Washington Post :
Amazon has gained a wealth of city data from the 238 entrants for its HQ2, which could give it an edge over its rivals for building facilities like warehouses
and some are already reaping the rewards Karen Weise / New York Times : The Mystery of Amazon HQ2 Has Finalists Seeing Clues Everywhere Tweets: Erica Pandey / @erica_pandey : Today marks one year sinc...
Tor launches a mobile Tor browser, now available on Android through the Play Store or as a direct download
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
UK retailer Argos launches a voice shopping service that lets customers check product availability and reserve products using Google Assistant
Sources: as Verizon execs remain wary about sharing user data with Oath and ad growth fails to take off, Tim Armstrong weighs leaving as early as October
awesome data for ad targeting —was fundamentally flawed. Did anybody think to check ahead of time? http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/... @mikeisaac : this is actually very important. facebook,...
Goldman Sachs CFO says reports about the company abandoning plans to open a cryptocurrency desk are “fake news”
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
Unity Technologies' CFO Mike Foley has resigned, after the company reportedly closed $145M in new funding in June, bringing total raised to over $600M
Troy Wolverton / Business Insider :
Eventbrite sets the IPO price range between $19 and $21 per share, to raise $200M at the midpoint of the range at a valuation of about $1.7B
NASDAQ.com :
Branch, a deep-linking startup backed by Andy Rubin's Playground Ventures, is raising $129M Series D at about a $1B valuation
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
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